[Gasification] Pyrolysis Oil in ICE

[Thomas Reed]

Dear Jason and all

We worked with fast pyrolysis oil a good deal at NREL in the 1980s.  Typical..yitco tans a good deal of water which of course will distill over. However, it is full of free radicals,and heating caused it to turn to a solid mess.  I'm sure that some volatiles could be collected, but not much.  

Most of the work was done by Jim Diebold, now at Community Power Corp.in Littleton.  

Slow pyrolysis of course produces a few % methanol, acetone, vanillin etc.  

Good luck, 

Tom Reed
     
Dr Thomas B Reed
President, The Biomass Energy Foundation
www.Woodgas.com

On Mar 19, 2011, at 13:39, Jason Stewart <urepedese at gmail.com> wrote:

> A thought occurred to me overnight as I contemplated building a gasifier for a car.
> 
> I know of people that used waster Avtur to run their car by using a vapouriser, after first warming it up on petrol. Could this also be done with pyrolysis oil?
> 
> Regard
> 
> Jason
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